Re: Ancient Archives of ftp.sourceware.org?

[Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org>]

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:17 AM Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> wrote:

> Jeff Law via Overseers <overseers@sourceware.org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 09:01 -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >>
> >> Wow! How was newlib distributed back in the dark pre-sourceware age?
> >> I know we used it before 97/98 and got it via ftp.
> > I don't remember.   I would expect official releases from the newlib
> project
> > would have been via ftp *somewhere*, but I don't know where.  It was a
> long time
> > ago.
>
> It was just ftp.cygnus.com, along with the binutils, etc.
>

I checked archive.org and cygnus.com was gone as we know it before
archive.org
got a snapshot. The oldest required Flash to even see what it was. :(

>
> I verified that from, well, an old copy of the RTEMS documentation.
>
>
> https://docs.rtems.org/releases/rtemsdocs-4.6.0/share/rtems/html/relnotes/relnotes00007.html


LOL.. I'm a bit embarrassed you found it in old RTEMS documentation.

I guess those old versions are gone forever. It was worth a try.

Thanks.

--joel


>
> Ian
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